I tend to agree with Gloria also about the Piney Woods for EAST TEXAS. But since researching my ancestors in EAST TEXAS, they were in Panola, Rusk, Johnson, Hood, Houston, Bosque, Coryell, Navaro, Ellis, Cooke and Young. Then they moved west to Childress where they finally settled. I have always tended to identify Texas by it geographical areas, High Plains and the Cap Rock, Piney Woods, the Gulf and of course West Texas (El Paso). I am from Childress and have worked all over the Panhandle, went to college in both Wichita Falls and Canyon (when WTSU had a football team!) My Jones family is well documented in the FWGS writings and they were all in East Texas. So I tend to believe than any "tag" is relative when discussing Texas. In the larger picture of genealogical research East Texas to me is anything east of Childress! Jim Moody Wasilla, Alaska Texas: JONES COFFEY CHESNUTT North Carolina: MOODY BLACK SMITH WILSON ALEXANDER ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sherry Douglas" <sdouglas@lcc.net> To: <EAST-TEXAS-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2000 09:03 AM Subject: Re: East Texas > I was keeping out of this, but I will now put my two cents worth in also.. I > was raised in Liberty County and taught that was SOUTH East Texas. About > Livingstone, Polk Co. began East Texas all the way north to Longview. Really > above there was considered NORTH East Texas. I was amazed to discover that > people from Paris and Texarkana consider themselves living in East Texas. Oh > well, TEXAS is a big state, and if we divide it into fourths, I guess then > they are as East Texan as I am now, that I'm living in Nacogdoches Co. Boy, > do we have Pine trees and chicken houses! Sherry Coker Douglas > > Researching LEE, ALLEN, DELONEY, BIRD, WEBSTER, COKER, ISHAM,& PERKINS, from > NACOGDOCHES, SHELBY, HUNT, HOPKINS, WOOD, & RUSK COUNTIES. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Gloria B. Mayfield <gbmayfield@tyler.net> > To: <EAST-TEXAS-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2000 7:35 AM > Subject: Re: East Texas > > > > I think East Texas is where the PINE TREES Are. Gloria > > >